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    Nelson Algren
    America Eats; Chicago, City on the Make; Somebody in Boots...
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    Henry Blake Fuller
    Bertram Cope's Year; Cliff-dwellers; Under the skylights...
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    Ben Hecht
    A child of the century; Gargoyles; Miss lonelyhearts...
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Ben Gelman

Born: 1921 in New York
Died: 2007 in Carbondale, Illinois

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: He lived in Carbondale, Illinois.

Biography: Ben Gelman is a southern Illinois naturalist and ornithologist. He was the Sunday editor and a columnist for the Southern Illinois.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Ben Gelman on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ben+gelman

Selected Titles

Bird watching with Ben
ISBN: 0809312212 OCLC: 11726112

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale : ©1985.

 

 

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